1 / 12

What Is Art?

What Is Art?. Atmospheric art: sketchy – using just a few colors – suggests an image without copying it. Combing the Hair: Edgar Degas - 1896. A work of art is a visual expression of an idea or experience created with skill. Photographic art: an image copied as exact as possible.

jabari
Download Presentation

What Is Art?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. What Is Art?

  2. Atmospheric art: sketchy – using just a few colors – suggests an image without copying it. Combing the Hair: Edgar Degas - 1896 A work of art is a visual expression of an idea or experience created with skill.

  3. Photographic art: an image copied as exact as possible. Portrait of Madame:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.Moitessier Sitting. 1856. A work of art is a visual expression of an idea or experience created with skill.

  4. Sunday Afternoon on the Island La Grande Jatte: Georges Seurat in the late 1880s

  5. Visual art includes drawing, print making, sculpture, architecture, photography, filmmaking, crafts...

  6. Visual art also includes graphic arts, industrial and commercial design, video, and computer art.

  7. To perceive is to become deeply aware through the six senses of the special nature of a visual object. Perception is a sensation to which you attach meaning. To understand and receive communication from a work of art, you must train yourself to perceive.

  8. Personal functions – artists create art to express personal feelings; love, sadness, outrage, pride, wonder, etc.

  9. Social function – artists produce art to identify and celebrate those in a family, community, or civilization; family photographs, coat of arms, flag, costumes, uniforms, etc.

  10. Spiritual function – artists may create art to express spiritual beliefs about the destiny of life; cave paintings, ancient temples, religious art, etc.

  11. Physical functions – artists and crafts people invent new ways to create functional art; automobile designers, architects, computer software and hardware designers, etc.

  12. Educational function – In the past, many people could not read and art was often created to provide visual instruction. Artists produced art works such as symbols painted on signs to give information. Viewers could learn from these artworks.

More Related